Allotment Mojo & a New Path-ology
Sunday morning, first time in 8 months, I had no real enthusiasm to go to the allotment. My previous visit last week had been a dispiriting one, with the water-logging worse than ever, and a bit of the new fence to the west flopping over because a post was washed out. Heigh ho. I went anyway, to, at least, put nearly a week of kitchen waste onto the compost heap. First thing I noticed, despite the fact that there's been plenty of rain and snow, the waterlogging and the pond had dropped to what I'm beginning to see as the normal level, at least for winter. Hammered in the loose post, and straightened the fence up. But my spirits fell again when I turned my attention to the bloody path. The first three paving slabs you can see in the foreground of the photo are very wobbly. The plan has been to lay three courses of bricks loosely in the trench, but it's not working because three courses of loose bricks with a concrete flagstone on top makes for a very wobbly walking e...